Seth Charlip-Blumlein joins Knewton as a Senior Engineer. Originally from San Francisco, Seth graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and was previously working as a Software Engineer at Audible. Seth is a big movie buff — his favorite is The Usual Suspects. Originally from Ardsley, NY, Samantha Zucker graduated from Carnegie Mellon University. She joins Knewton’s Design team as a UX Designer. In her free time, Samantha enjoys yoga, puzzles, photography, and gif use. Her… Read more

Carolyn Stein comes to Knewton as a Humanities Content Curator. A former high school teacher, Carolyn was teaching English in high schools for immigrant students before coming to Knewton. She graduated from Brown University, received her teaching degree from the New School, and earned her Masters in education research at the University of Paris. She loves novels, especially classic British fiction, as well as old and foreign movies. She recently re-learned how to swim. Rob… Read more

We welcomed seven new Knerds to the team in the past month. Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, Senior Product Manager Ilya Bagrak comes to Knewton from Amplify. His hobbies include writing, running, cooking, and reading (his favorite book is Special Topics in Calamity Physics). Ilya’s favorite website is Longreads and his favorite Wikipedia page is the Monty Hall problem. You can find him on Twitter @ibagrak or on his website, codercofounder.com. Dan McGorry joins Knewton’s… Read more

We welcomed two new Knerds last month. Kristen Keating Weeks joins as a Senior Manager, Business Development. Originally from Haverford, PA, Kristen studied History & Literature at Harvard College and earned her MBA at Columbia Business School. Kristen’s favorite place is New Orleans and her favorite websites are the New York Times and Suri’s Burn Book. Kate Wellschlager joins Knewton as a Content Curator for the Humanities. A former middle and high school social studies… Read more

We have 15 new Knerds to introduce this month. Nine engineers, one adaptive instruction analyst, one finance and operations associate, one client manager, one content curator, one product manager, and one data scientist recently joined the Knewton team. Without further ado, here’s a quick intro to each of them. Full stack engineer Remi Carton is originally from Lyon, France, and studied at the Universite de Technologie de Compiegne. His favorite book is Twenty Thousand Leagues… Read more

Eight Knerds joined Knewton last month. Here’s a quick introduction to each of our new team members. Andrew Gwozdziewycz, Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team, comes to Knewton from OKCupid Labs, where he was the CTO. Originally from Honesdale, PA, Andrew graduated from Temple University and currently lives in Brooklyn. In his free time, he enjoys photography; reading about, implementing, and messing around with programming languages; and running Hack and Tell (a show and… Read more

Five new Knerds joined the Knewton team last month. Software engineer Rafi Shamim is a New Jersey native and recent grad of Princeton University. His hobbies include soccer, ultimate frisbee, upgrading his computer, reading, coding puzzles, Civilization V, Crusader Kings II, and European-style board games. His favorite website is futilitycloset.com. You can find Rafi at http://rafiss.com/blog or on Twitter @rafiss. Tanya Roth joins Knewton as the Human Resources Manager. Originally from Mountain Lakes, NJ, she graduated from Bucknell and Columbia Teacher’s College. Her favorite… Read more

Four new Knerds joined the team in the last month. Molly Gerth is the Communications Manager on the Marketing team. Previously, Molly worked at TriplePoint in San Francisco and then New York, doing PR for startups with a special focus on edtech. Originally from Half Moon Bay, CA, Molly graduated from Stanford University. Outside of work, you can find her dancing, writing, freestyling, and eating ice cream before dinner. Sonal Singhal joins Knewton as an… Read more

Four team members joined Knewton this month. Here’s a quick rundown of our newest Knerds. Originally from Manhattan, Josh Gordon attended Yale and taught at Beaumont High School in St. Louis before joining Knewton’s Content Curation team. Currently Josh spends much of his time errantly wandering parts of New York he hasn’t been to yet. He thinks D3: The Mighty Ducks was way better than Mighty Ducks 1 and 2 combined. (Feel free to argue… Read more

We welcomed a few more interns to the Knewton team in the past few weeks. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis last May with a double major in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and Spanish, David Kosofsky studied Religion in Jerusalem. Now, he’s working on Knewton’s Content Curation team. Outside of work, you can find David hunting for four-leaf clovers, spearfishing for tuna, and playing blindfolded Sodoku. His favorite movies are vintage Adam Sandler (think Big Daddy,… Read more